Garage doors with their own hands

Often, due to high prices for finished structures and for a number of personal reasons, car owners decide to make swing garage doors on their own. In this article we will try to tell how to make such work, as well as provide the necessary drawings.

Types of garage doors

At the first stage of the project, you should decide on the type of gate that is best suited for your specific conditions. But first of all it is necessary to consider the known versions of the construction of this type, which include:

• the oar type, differing in extreme simplicity of execution;
• recoiling;
• sectional type;
• lifting

Note that the independent production of the last three types can be associated with certain difficulties for an ordinary artist. In this regard, we suggest that you consider the procedure for assembling a garage structure on the example of the installation of the easiest to manufacture swing gates.

Preparatory data

Manufacturing technology of swing type gates is quite simple and will not require the involvement of any special materials and components. All you need for their construction is metal sheet blanks, profiles and angles of various dimensions, which today can be purchased at almost any building materials store.

Even before the start of installation work, it is advisable to prepare a sketch indicating all the elements used in the construction and their sizes. In drawing up the sketch, you will need to decide on such indicators of future gates as their height and width.

Based on the requirements of free passage of the car through the aperture, its width is usually set in the range of 2.5 to 3 m. The height of the frame is selected taking into account the appropriate size of the car; in various situations, this size can vary from 2 to 2.5 m.

Manufacturing frame and sashes

The manufacture of swing gates begins with the preparation of the supporting frame, consisting of internal and external frames and which is the basis for hanging hinges on the hinges.

Such a frame is made, as a rule, from a steel angle with a size of at least 65 mm. The starting material for arranging the frame base of the valves can serve as a steel corner 50 mm, or a rectangular profile of the same size. After the frame for the valves is ready - you will need to sheathe it with iron sheets with a thickness of about 2 mm.

In the manufacture of garage doors, special attention should be paid to the accuracy of the installation of the corner joints, as well as to ensure the strength of the prepared structure. It is for these reasons that stiffeners should be provided in it, made in the form of profile jumpers located along the diagonals. In addition, we should not forget about the working gaps, which should remain between the carrier and the frame of the door leaves (within 10-15 mm).

Installation

All basic operations associated with the installation of garage doors, it is desirable to perform in the following order:

1. First of all, in a partially prepared aperture, a support frame is welded in advance from metal corners. Its installation is carried out, as a rule, after several rows of brickwork of the front part of the garage, raised to a height of about 50 cm, are laid out.
2. At the next stage of installation work, the supporting frame is fixed (fixed) in the masonry. To do this, use special metal embedded in the form of reinforcing rods. The bars, about 25 centimeters long, are welded to the supporting frame and embedded in the course of laying between the bricks. On each of the supports of the frame structure, it is desirable to have at least four such mortgages.
3. Now you can continue to lay out the front wall of the building until you get a full vertical strapping.
4. After laying masonry to the top of the frame - you can proceed to the installation of jumpers. As a lintel can be used as a finished reinforced concrete billet, and self-prepared section of the rails. When installing it, do not forget to leave a small gap, taking into account the possibility of precipitation of the structure during its operation.
5. And finally, the finished door leaves are hinged on hinges, pre-welded to the frame base.

Upon completion of the whole complex of works, the garage doors are necessarily tested for their functionality. This checks the ease of opening and closing the valves, as well as the absence of any deformations and distortions.

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Installing a garage door today, many owners of vehicles. If you have experience in carrying out such work, leave your comments on the article.

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